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GODS & QUEENS are touring Europe, again. If you can, please go see them and then punch Jamie Getz in his fat head for never touring the damn states like a wimp and making us sit on these dust-collecting but totally awesome LPs. The jerk!

Seriously though, Ben the bassist is awesome and I’m sure whatever sucker they found to play drums is alright too. Go see these dudes, Euros!!

Brooklyn/Philadelphia trio GOD & QUEENS are gearing up for an early summer US tour, but quote guitarist/vocalist Jamie Getz who is booking the tour:

“Everyone I used to deal with in my peer group has moved up/on/out, and either is done with it altogether, or they are now working at Live Nation, totally out of touch with anything DIY, or they are the “talent buyers” at medium sized clubs.”

This translates to the band needing help booking shows in your town. They will play your house/garage/basement/club/bar/restaurant/gallery/whatever. Here is their proposed itinerary:

In mildly related news, completely unprompted and without explanation, Getz also sent us the lyrics for GODS & QUEENS‘ “untitled” debut 12″+CD that was released on Robotic Empire earlier this year. No clue why these hardheads wouldn’t just include them with the album, but you can now find those here:

The initial wave of feedback for the GODS & QUEENS untitled debut 12″+CD has come in, and overall people seem to dig the band! This is good news to us because we don’t like releasing duds… so to stroke our & the band’s collective ego, please check out some of the kind words received thus far:

We can’t rest on our laurels for long, so hot on the heels of releasing HELMS ALEE‘s Night Terror and TORCHE‘s second pressing of Meanderthal, we are very pleased to announce that the GODS & QUEENS untitled debut album is now available for pre-order!

For those unfamiliar with this relatively new group, the two songs posted should show a bit of the variety this trio has cooked up… but all seven songs on this sound pretty different from one another. Here’s the formal description we awkwardly conjured for this thing:

GODS & QUEENS debut with washes of reverb and echoes of shoegazer’s catchier moments. There’s mature inconsistency here… or in other words: fast songs, slow songs and one droning psychedelic blissfest. To semi-appropriately quote the band, “GODS & QUEENS is a three piece band from Brooklyn/Philadelphia who tried in vain to blatantly steal riffs and song patterns from some of their favorite bands (like HOOVER, LUNGFISH, JUNE OF 44, SPACEMAN 3 and the like)… but failed in every attempt. Instead here are seven songs that resemble nothing of who or what they were intended to be. A few have said it sounds like a low rent, super depressed version of FUGAZI, or QUICKSAND with out the start stop timing.” What this boils down to is that GODS & QUEENS is playing an abnormally dark blend of indie/shoegazer/whatever-people-want-to-call-it.

It might(/might not) also be worth mentioning that Jamie Getz from this band also used to be in VERSOMA, GET FUCKED, and LICKGOLDENSKY… amongst others. Robin Fowler also played in the later incarnation of VERSOMA and we have no idea what Ben Roysdon’s history is, as the guy is an enigma.

Not shipping out until about a week from now, we do have the records in-house now… so we are taking pre-orders. This turned out pretty damn sweet, and we made this as both the CD and vinyl LP formats package together in one gatefold sleeve. This is our first split label release in a many many years, but we’re stoked to work with longtime Euro-bros at Adagio830 / Bis Aufs Messer to present the GODS & QUEENS debut to you. Folks overseas in Europe should pick this jam up from them, but otherwise feel free to grab this now in the Robotic Empire Online Store.

Brooklyn/Philadelphia trio GODS & QUEENS have posted another new song from their untitled debut effort for Robotic Empire/Adagio830/Dead Format Cassettes. This second untitled track is two of seven total songs on the debut album, which will see a worldwide release on October 14th. The new song can be heard here:

The untitled seven-song album was recorded by Jason LaFarge at Seizures Palace and mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East. This will see an October 14th street date as a 12″+CD (both formats together) released by Robotic Empire in North America and Adagio830 in Europe. A cassette version will also be available from Dead Format Cassettes, and digital downloads will be available on iTunes, etc.